FIFTIETH ANNUAL CONVENTION 11 



new and surprisingly effective and attractive feature. The 

 walls of the drill hall in the armory, in which the meeting 

 was held, were covered with posters prepared by school 

 children, they having received a series of talks on milk, 

 and its value and necessity in the diet for young and 

 old, the talks having been given by a worker of the National 

 Dairy Council. Elsewhere is given a cut showing a few of 

 these posters. 



The exhibit by the National Dairy Council illustrating 

 the valuej and necessity of milk was most impressive and 

 attractive, and a milk fair play put on by the National 

 Dairy Council, school children taking the parts or charac- 

 ters, attracted large audiences the evenings of Jan. 8 and 

 10. 



The banquet Wednesday evening, Jan. 9, with W. W. 

 Marple of Chicago as toastmaster, was a notable event. 

 (This was the last event at which Mr. Marple, vice-president 

 of the Association and famous as a toast master, presided. 

 He went to Florida right after the convention for a rest, 

 was taken sick in Jacksonville, and after his partial recov- 

 ery and return north, died suddenly at Battle Creek, Mich., 

 where he had gone for further treatment) . 



The program was excellent throughout and opened 

 Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 8, with an invocation, an address 

 of welcome by a representative of the city government and 

 a response by President W. S. O'Hair of the Association. 

 R. E. Caldwell of Waukegan gave a dairy cattle demonstra- 

 tion lecture using cattle from the herds exhibited as sub- 

 jects, and after the lecture; conducted the boys' class in 

 dairy cattle. judging. 



Mr. J. P. Mason gave a short dairy talk and J. R. Daw- 

 son of the dairy bureau, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 gave an address on "Why We Need Better Dairy Cows." 



Committees were appointed and the convention was 

 thus under way. 



Tuesday evening brought 1,500 or more persons out 

 to witness the "Milk Play," put on by the National Dairy 

 Council, the play being preceded by a talk on "Milk a Nec- 

 essary Food," by M. O. Maughan, secretary of the Council. 



